Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mustn't read that," her mother would say, when Jane Gray picked up a newspaper, "that's too old for you." An obedient child, Jane Gray never learned that her father, Judd Gray, had been tried and executed for the murder of Albert Snyder. She was however informed that he was dead and that before his death he had written a series of letters one of which she would receive every year on her birthday. Last week, Jane Gray received the first of these letters. Newsgatherers wished to know its contents but Jane Gray refused to tell them...
...Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece...
...pretensions of all these are as dust compared to the potential glory of Jane Carroll. She was born in Louisville, Ky., but she came to Manhattan long ago, to play in the Follies. Therefore she is no foreigner to the metropolis and its denizens would be glad to see, to hear about her family & friends. Her recent success in The Vagabond King, as Huguette, caused several interesting facts about her home life to be publicly known. She is a player of chess; her favorite novel is Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; she is beautiful but apparently intelligent. Jane...
...Wilson Howard, newspaper tycoon, glittering link of the Scripps-Howard chain, did not sail by the Leviathan. But Mrs. Howard and Daughter Jane sailed first class. Son Jack sailed as a steward, without telling his father...
...Significance. Because Author Asquith's first novel contains more conversation than narrative, ecstatic critics are likening her to Jane Austen. But the light touch and the subtleties of the 19th century novelist are not Margot's-hers is rather a brilliant vivacity that springs from her myriad interests. Able horsewoman, her interest reflects itself in frequent contemplation of the technicalities of horseflesh. Scintillating conversationalist, her characters reflect the widely varied circle of her acquaintance. A liberal in politics, she tilts sharply at conservatism. And the result is a mass of entertaining material, done into novel-form to allow...